Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu campaigns against US president Barack Obama's Iran diplomacy before Congress, in an address that has put unprecedented stress on the two leaders' already strained ties

Critics of Vladimir Putin have an uncanny habit of ending up dead. Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov is the latest to be gunned down in mysterious circumstances – and the Kremlin is already blurring the details

They’ve been insulted, forced into prostitution and discriminated against for decades, but now India’s hijra transgender community has one of their own in power. Eesha Patkar meets Madhu, the mayor of Raigarh